Rose 'Freedom' - Hybrid Tea Rose (Also known as 'Dicjem')
A remarkable hybrid tea rose producing impressive, shapely blooms in vibrant chrome yellow that retain their colour without fading, complemented by rich fragrance, excellent disease resistance, and reliable repeat flowering, making it perfect for formal gardens, cutting displays, and mass planting schemes.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 80cm
- Eventual Spread: 60cm
- Flowering Period: June to November
- Flower Colour: Bright chrome yellow
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Upright, vigorous and bushy
- Flower Type: Large, double blooms with tight centres
- Fragrance: Rich, pleasant fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Freedom' stands as one of the finest yellow hybrid tea roses available to modern gardeners, renowned for its spectacular bright chrome yellow blooms that maintain their vibrant colour without fading throughout the flowering season. This exceptional variety produces large, shapely double flowers with distinctive tight centres and very regular form, creating the perfect hybrid tea appearance that has made this class of roses so beloved by gardeners worldwide. The impressive blooms feature exceptional colour retention, holding their brilliant yellow tones from bud to full flower, whilst the rich fragrance adds aromatic dimension to complement the spectacular visual display. With its compact yet vigorous upright growth habit, excellent disease resistance, and reliable repeat flowering from spring through late autumn, 'Freedom' delivers outstanding garden performance with minimal maintenance requirements, making it ideal for formal displays, cutting gardens, mass planting schemes, and anywhere consistent yellow flowering excellence is desired.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Freedom' lies in its impressive, shapely blooms that showcase perfect hybrid tea form with exceptional colour vibrancy and substance. Each flower displays large double form with tight centres that create the classic high-centred appearance prized in exhibition roses, whilst the bright chrome yellow colouring provides vibrant garden impact that captures attention throughout the growing season. The exceptional colour retention characteristic ensures blooms maintain their brilliant yellow tones without fading, creating consistent colour displays that remain true from bud to full flower. The flowers feature very regular shape with stiff petals that provide excellent weather resistance and substance, making them particularly valuable for cutting and formal displays. The rich, pleasant fragrance adds aromatic appeal that complements the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both outdoor spaces and indoor arrangements.
Growth Characteristics
The plant produces many shoots with somewhat uneven growth pattern that creates natural bushy appearance whilst maintaining the strong upright structure typical of quality hybrid tea roses. The healthy glossy mid-green foliage is produced abundantly, creating excellent backdrop for the spectacular yellow blooms whilst maintaining attractive appearance throughout the growing season. The compact size makes it particularly suitable for smaller gardens and container cultivation whilst still delivering substantial visual impact through its vibrant flowering displays.
Flowering Performance
From spring through to late autumn, 'Freedom' delivers exceptional flowering displays with abundant repeat blooming that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces deep yellow blooms freely throughout summer and autumn, creating substantial visual impact with reliable performance that ensures continuous garden colour. The individual blooms develop with classic hybrid tea form, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect shape and vibrant colour intensity, whilst the tight centres ensure each flower maintains its elegant appearance for extended periods. The repeat-flowering nature means continuous displays throughout the season, with the large yellow blooms providing spectacular focal points that brighten garden spaces with their brilliant colour and pleasant fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Freedom' thrives in full sun to partial sun with fertile, well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal performance. For best results, plant in sunny positions where the vibrant yellow colour can be fully appreciated and the fragrance can develop optimally. The variety benefits from incorporation of well-rotted organic matter and responds well to regular feeding to support the vigorous growth and abundant flower production. Good air circulation around the plant helps maintain healthy foliage whilst supporting the excellent disease resistance.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
One of the most notable features of 'Freedom' is its good disease resistance, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The healthy glossy mid-green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with natural resistance to common rose diseases, making it an excellent choice for low-maintenance gardening approaches. This exceptional disease resistance, combined with the vigorous growth habit, makes it particularly suitable for mass planting schemes where reliable performance with minimal intervention is essential.
Care and Maintenance
'Freedom' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and colour retention. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular deep watering during dry periods to support the vigorous growth and abundant flower production. The good disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention beyond standard care practices, making it suitable for busy gardeners seeking reliable performance. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the compact shape and promotes vigorous new growth for optimal flowering performance.
Garden Applications
'Freedom' excels in formal rose gardens and mixed borders where its vibrant yellow colour and reliable performance can be fully appreciated. The bright chrome yellow blooms make it ideal for creating cheerful displays and lifting garden spaces with consistent colour, whilst the compact habit suits formal plantings and structured garden designs. A very good choice for mass planting where its reliable performance and excellent disease resistance ensure consistent displays across large areas. The excellent cut flower qualities make it valuable for cutting gardens, providing strong stems and long-lasting blooms with pleasant fragrance that enhance floral arrangements and indoor displays.
Container Growing
The compact growth habit and manageable size make 'Freedom' well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and small gardens. The rose thrives in large containers where its vibrant yellow blooms can create focal points and cheerful displays, making it perfect for terraces and seating areas where bright colour enhances the garden experience. Choose containers at least 50cm wide and deep with excellent drainage, using high-quality multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release fertiliser. Container-grown specimens require more frequent watering and feeding than ground-planted roses, but the reliable performance and spectacular colour make this worthwhile for gardens with limited space.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Freedom' provides exceptional seasonal interest with consistent colour and reliable performance. Spring brings the emergence of healthy glossy foliage and early flowering that begins the extended blooming season. The spectacular blooms from spring through late autumn provide months of bright chrome yellow colour that maintains vibrancy without fading, creating consistent garden cheer throughout the extended season. The attractive foliage remains healthy throughout the season with excellent disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular flower displays, whilst the upright branching structure provides architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Freedom' features rich, pleasant fragrance that complements the spectacular visual display and enhances the overall garden experience. The fragrance intensity adds aromatic appeal to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for cutting gardens where both visual beauty and aromatic excellence are desired. The pleasant scent enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where fragrance contributes to the sensory garden experience, whilst the excellent cut flower qualities bring the aromatic appeal indoors for floral arrangements.
Companion Planting
The bright chrome yellow colouring of 'Freedom' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and striking colour schemes. The vibrant yellow works beautifully with purple and blue flowers such as lavender and delphiniums for dramatic contrast, whilst white flowers provide elegant balance that highlights both the rose and companion plants. The warm yellow tones complement orange and red flowers for vibrant displays, whilst the compact habit makes it suitable for planting with perennials and herbs that enhance the garden's colour and fragrance layers throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Innovation
'Freedom' represents quality hybrid tea breeding that successfully integrated spectacular colour retention with reliable garden performance and excellent disease resistance. The variety demonstrates the successful development of vibrant yellow colouring combined with classic hybrid tea form and robust garden characteristics, creating a rose that satisfies both aesthetic preferences and practical gardening requirements. The alternative name 'Dicjem' reflects its breeding heritage whilst the descriptive name 'Freedom' captures the liberating qualities of its low-maintenance excellence and reliable performance.
Mass Planting Excellence
One of the most valued features of 'Freedom' is its exceptional suitability for mass planting schemes where its reliable performance, excellent disease resistance, and consistent colour create spectacular large-scale displays. The uniform growth habit and abundant flowering ensure cohesive displays that provide maximum visual impact across extensive plantings, making it particularly valuable for public gardens, commercial landscapes, and large residential projects where reliable yellow flowering is required.
Colour Retention Excellence
The exceptional colour retention characteristic makes 'Freedom' particularly valuable for gardeners seeking consistent yellow flowering that maintains its vibrancy throughout the bloom cycle. The bright chrome yellow colour holds without fading, ensuring displays remain brilliant from bud to full flower, providing reliable colour consistency that distinguishes this variety from roses prone to colour deterioration.
Why Choose 'Freedom'?
Rose 'Freedom' represents the perfect combination of vibrant colour, reliable performance, and low-maintenance excellence. The large, bright chrome yellow blooms with their exceptional colour retention provide spectacular displays from spring through late autumn, whilst the excellent disease resistance and compact growth ensure reliable performance with minimal intervention. Whether grown for mass planting schemes, formal displays, cutting gardens, or container cultivation, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers exceptional value that will provide years of gardening pleasure and consistent yellow flowering that brightens garden spaces with reliable beauty and pleasant fragrance in any garden setting.
Reasons to Buy Roses from Jacksons Nurseries
(1) ‘Excellent’ on Trustpilot
Buy with confidence from the only online rose grower rated ‘Excellent’ 4.9* on Trustpilot. We have been a trusted supplier of roses for 3 generations. We take pride in growing our own roses in the field before potting them up, allowing for meticulous quality control to sale.
(2) Best Prices Guaranteed – Direct from the Grower
Save £££s by buying direct from a grower you can trust. We’ve already price checked all of our roses against competitors so you don’t have to. We are so confident we offer the best value, if you find a rose of the same type and grade elsewhere, we’ll beat it by 10%.
(3) 12 Month Plants Guarantee
We offer a 12 month guarantee on every plant that you buy from us that we have classified as Fully Hardy. If a plant you've bought from us fails in the first year, we will either replace it or refund you. See our satisfaction guarantee page for more details and conditions.
(4) Third generation family-owned nursery specialising in roses
Jackson’s Nurseries is a 3rd generation family owned business which has been growing roses for over 60 years. Roses have always been our specialty, as you can see from the colourful array of blooms in the background to the old family photo below. Today, we offer over 200 different varieties of floribundas, hybrid teas, patio, shrub and David Austin roses. Our roses are initially grown in the field before being potted up for website dispatch.
(5) Grown at altitude to produce strong, healthy plants
Our North Staffordshire nursery is situated at 250 metres above sea level, producing strong, hardy plants that will thrive in your garden. Our nursery sits on clay, so you can be sure our roses can handle heavy soil too.
(6) Help & Advice and Aftercare
We are help to help you with any help and advice you need in choosing, planting and growing your roses before, during and after your purchase from us. The help and advice section of our website has extensive information, see below some examples of articles you may find useful:
- Different types of roses and what they each mean
- Guide to climbing roses
- Guide to floribunda roses
- Guide to hybrid tea roses
- How to plant a climbing rose
- How to grow hybrid tea roses
How our roses are supplied through the seasons
All our roses are cultivated in an open field and are carefully dug up when the weather is optimal, typically in October or November. While other nurseries supply roses bare root, once our field-grown roses have been potted up we supply them freshly potted. This better protects the roots and helps keep them moist in transit, ensuring your roses arrive as healthy as when they left our nursery. So don’t be alarmed if the compost comes away from the roots when you remove them from the pot.
The roses can remain in their pots over the winter, as long as they are properly watered and fed, but it's best to plant them out as soon as possible. If you do plant them straight away make sure the planting mix is prepared first, hold the root close to the top of the hole as you tip the pot upside down and try to keep as much compost as possible from falling away. They will already be pruned, so no additional pruning is needed except for trimming any dead tips. Regular pruning can start in late winter, the year after planting.
Rose Types
Hybrid Tea Roses (HT)
Hybrid Tea roses are probably the most popular group of roses, available in both bush and standard form they have long flower stems and shapely blooms. Blooms are typically medium to large in size, with many petals which form a distinct central cone.
Floribunda Roses (FL)
Floribunda roses bears its flowers in clusters or trusses, with several blooms open at time in each truss. A popular choice the Floribunda rose group is unrivalled for colour, reliability and longevity as a bedding display however the flower form in generally inferior to the Hybrid Tea.
Patio Roses (PATIO)
Patio roses were introduced in the 1980’s and the group now contains several popular varieties. Generally low-growing roses that were once grouped with the Floribuna group but have now been put in their own group of compact versions. Usually growing about 50cm high they make excellent plants for patio containers or at the front of borders.
Climbing Roses (CLM)
Climbing roses as the name suggests are the perfect choice for covering a wall or screen. Often grouped together with Ramblers, Climbers tend to have stiffer stems, larger flowers but smaller trusses than Ramblers.
Rambling Roses (RAM)
Rambling roses are often grouped with Climbing Roses but the ramblers tend to have a more pliable stems that can be used to run along the soil to use as groundcover or can be used to make weeping standards.
Miniature Roses (MINI)
Miniature roses have increased in popularity in recent years due to their versatility, even grown indoors as temporary pot plants that grow to a maximum height of 40cm. An ideal choice for planting in tubs, edging beds and rockeries.
English Roses (ENG)
Often referred to as Austin or David Austin Roses, English roses are hybrids of old English roses and more modern varieties bread by David Austin to provide the best of both, mixing old rose shapes and scents with more modern colour range, compact habits and repeat flowering.
Planting Advice
Roses like a generous root space, so dig a deep hole approximately twice as wide as the current root system, preferably adding composted organic matter to the soil. Never plant into frozen soil – in winter, await a frost-free period. Carefully remove the pot and gently tease the roots apart to spread them around the hole. Position the plant so that the ‘bud point’ (the place where the shoots emerge from, where the cultivated rose was grafted onto the rootstock) is at soil level. Replace the soil, firming it down gently, then water copiously. Ideally, a general purpose fertiliser should be applied to the surrounding soil as a top dressing. We also highly recommend the use of Rose Rootgrow, which provides a friendly fungus that prevents ‘rose replant syndrome’.
Buying our Roses
Pot Size
Most of our roses are supplied in a 4 litre pot although this may vary slightly depending on rose variety. If the size of pot differes significatly from 4 litres then we will make this clear somewhere on the product page.
Seasonality
Our roses are grown outdoors and as such are subject to seasonal changes. As we sell potted stock throughout the year your rose may not arrive and look like you expect it to. If you are uncertain how your rose will arrive (especially if buying for a gift) then we suggest you contact us prior to making a purchase.
Freshly Potted
Each year a new batch of roses is potted up ready for the following season. Once potted (usually November/December time) they go on sale as 'Freshly Potted'. If you purchase a freshly potted rose and plant it soon after you will find that when removing the rose from the pot there will be a lot of loose soil as the roots will not have had time to grow and bind the compost.
Pruned/Cut Back
In autumn the majority of our roses have finished flowering and begin to look untidy, at this point we prune them quite hard in preparation for the following season. We continue to sell roses throughout the year, when a rose has been pruned in such a way we will identify it has being so. If you are not sure what to expect then please ask prior to making a purchase. Some garden centres/supermarkets sell stock that has been grown abroad or in poly-tunnels so they look 'picture perfect' out of season, while this is ideal for a gift they are short lived once planted.
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